Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [verb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was illogical to accept that an accord and satisfaction fell within s 286(5) but fell outside s 287(1) , which referred to where a company releases or writes off the whole or part of the debt . |
| 2 | Standard machines measure 600 mm ( 23⅝in ) deep by 595 mm ( 23⅜in ) wide , to fit between units and can be stacked one above the other , but , unless you have a separate utility room , that does not leave much space nearby for storing laundry supplies and accessories or setting down the just cleaned laundry . |
| 3 | After sewing the neck shape I either overlock the shoulders or pick up the stitches on a darning needle using the same colour yarn . |
| 4 | A quiet little fishing village on the northern-most tip of the island , where you can sample the day' catch in traditional-style restaurants or browse around the shops and bars . |
| 5 | Some may even be clinging to the arching aerial roots of the mangroves or clambering up the trunks . |
| 6 | Hailed as a kind of dominant world religion , science is a powerful tool some men have used to elevate themselves above other men , women , children , and the plants and animals that make up the world we live in . |
| 7 | Most of the animals that live along the hedgerows unfortunately only come out at night and the best way to see them is in the light of a car 's headlamp . |
| 8 | There was no shrub and palm cover bound by creepers as there had been in the rain forest so that the track was little protected from the squalls that struck up the mountainside , screeching like banshees , as they bowed the slender treetrunks almost to the ground . |
| 9 | What is it about kitchens at parties that brings out the homing pigeon in everybody ? |
| 10 | In performance mode , each program is treated as a complete effect unit and can be controlled by editing the parameters that make up the program . |
| 11 | The Teacher 's Books explain clearly how to teach each lesson , and how to get the best out of each of the books that make up the course . |
| 12 | Supermarket and delicatessen shelves are often stocked with many interesting tins and bottles of sauces that conjure up the promise of the Orient with their exotic names . |
| 13 | Where an old person is still to be seen at the centre of a web of relationships that extend down the generations and through the individual members to the community beyond it can be quite startling how the pleasure derived from life remains undiminished despite quite severe physical and material handicaps . |
| 14 | What the strategy does do , is to formalize and focus the analysis in a way that gives everybody concerned the essential basis for developing and judging good advertising — the two aspects that take up the next two chapters . |
| 15 | The secret of success in this task is finding the key words that make up the skeleton . |
| 16 | Wars came early to Shanghai , overtaking each other like the tides that raced up the Yangtze and returned to the gaudy city all the coffins cast adrift from the funeral piers of the Chinese Bond . |
| 17 | It has been postulated that it was either the dinosaurs that opened up the way for the angiosperms , or instead it was the changing nature of the flora itself that was in some way the prime mover of evolutionary trends ; that , in spite of all the advances in jaw structure discussed above , they somehow speeded up trends towards extinction . |
| 18 | It was like coming home and the first thing she did was to walk to the pictures that hung on the wall and look at them all over again . |
| 19 | A quiet woman in a large white apron brought them cold white wine in a red earthenware jug , and they sat at the edge of the patio looking out at the rows of vines , of lemon trees , tomatoes and capsicums that straggled down the hillside , shaded in places by tall cypresses and stunted white-trunked olive trees . |
| 20 | Good examples of this are the genes that give rise to the histones ( proteins that make up the chromosomal superstructure ) , the ribosomal RNA , the immunoglobulins and many others . |
| 21 | One obvious division is by the independent nations that make up the subcontinent ; the major three are shown in Figure 2.12 . |
| 22 | Rick Bateysifts through the veritable medley of classic influences that make up the latest sepia-tinted offering from Chandler in San Francisco … |
| 23 | Oysters , gentlemen — I 'll provide the oysters , and it 'll be the oysters that pay off the overdraft . " |
| 24 | The need in the case of the Oedipus myth to resolve the contradiction between two pieces of knowledge that are in conflict can be comfortably taken as the signified that lies behind the significations that make up the various versions of the myth . |
| 25 | Fine to medium paintbrushes are useful for moving flowers and leaves around , and for brushing hairs and fluff off the design once you have finished it . |
| 26 | All around him , squatting on the ground , were his followers ; and beyond them , around the outskirts and blocking up the mouths of the little streets which gave on to the square , was a wider , more disinterested audience . |
| 27 | Use of PLATO has the disadvantage that special PLATO terminals have to be used for the instruction ; this means that users can not be taught in their own congressional offices and carry out the training as and when required . |
| 28 | A mob attacked Kano government offices and burnt down the state radio station . |
| 29 | Sometimes a single boulder bounds and clatters down the scree pile , echoing loudly , sometimes a larger mass breaks away , sometimes the scree itself shifts and readjusts itself in a prolonged rattling clatter — a noise rather like the sea swashing back over pebbles . |
| 30 | Maggie looked at him ironically and the dark eyes were turned fully on her , inspecting her face until she had the mad urge to shut her eyes and block out the intent gaze . |